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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1935
Page
5
Officials disclose examination schedule for December including Grade III and Grade II students at Elevation Grace II. Inspec workshops and instrument service discussed along with divisions of minimum machine operation and office audit. Mailings to State Civil. Columbus.
Excess food distributed to needy families in Athens County will continue as a WPA project. County commissioners will sponsor the transfer from FERA, with 1,400 plus families served at five points and 19 merchants. Meals include meat prunes and milk from a Columbus warehouse, started December 1933, 500 tons distributed in 16 months. New athletic field in Nelsonville to start Monday, 30 workers moved, football baseball and tennis facilities planned along the Hocking River. A Meigs County project releases grading and drainage on three miles of Scott Road. District 8 employs 8,281 in eight counties, with 1,575 in Athens County.
Grain prices fluctuated with No. 2 red wheat around 95 cents and corn No. 2 yellow about 60 cents, oats near 30 cents, while track quotes added premiums. Eggs and poultry showed mixed values across grades, with butter steady and hogs maintaining firm dressed prices amid steady poultry demand.
Prices shown include commission for eggs and dairy items. Current receipts list nearby, southern regions with figures 31 32 and 29930. Whites large 34036 and medium 31932. Butter 97 tubs and eggs total 2 036 cases.
Butter shows 3,977 steady with creamery specials at 93 score and 334% extras at 92 and 32% firsts 90 91 at 31 32 percent, with 88 89 firsts at 304% and seconds 29 32% standards 90 with centralized carrots. Eggs total 2,190 steady with extra firsts 30 fresh graded firsts 29 current receipts 27 28 refrigerator extras 21 standards 20 percent firsts 20 percent.
Butter firm creamery extras in tubs 36s and standards 36. Eggs firm. Live poultry steady with medium fowls No 3 at 13 cents and old toms at 20. Local fresh dressed poultry steady. Potatoes 75712.50 per 100 pound sack. Sweet potatoes 1.65 a bushel. Other items unchanged.
Livestock totals include 3 100 hogs with direct and through lots, bids up 10 to 20 cents from Wednesday. Hogs mostly 125 over, light-tailors and packing sows steady to 25 higher, weights 140 to 250 pounds selling around 10 to 10. Calves, cattle, and sheep show market strength with steers and heifers up to 25 cents, fat cows around 4.50 to 6.25, stock and butcher calves steady, lambs and mutton steady with prime light weights quotable to 11.50 and up, odd slaughter ewes down to 3.50.
Hors d'oeuvre of commodity quotes for hogs cattle and sheep with prices for various weights and grades. Treasury position for November lists receipts expenditures balance customs revenues and fiscal-year totals with debt and gold asset figures.
Funeral services for Robert Lee Morris infant son of Mr and Mrs Dale Morris of Pleasant Hill will be held at Bates Church Sunday afternoon at 1 20 o clock. Burial will be in Jef fers Cemetery. The infant died Thursday.
Athens residents were urged by city postmaster Francis Frebault to mail and shop early to help postal workers handle the December rush. He advised secure wrapping, clear addresses, careful packing of fragile items, and noted special delivery will ensure timely arrival despite no regular Christmas Day delivery.
Canaanville hosts 9 30 worship with the sermon Let Us Praise Him Together and Church School at 10 30 a m Guysville School at 9 30 and worship at 10 45 Stewart Church School at 9 30 and worship at 7 30 followed by combined official board and School Board meeting Revival services begin Monday evening Dec 2 at Bethany M E Church public invited
A barber, an engineer, a bridge man, and three laborers spent Thanksgiving night at the Athens City Jail per Jailer Harry Dalton’s guest book. Five listed Cincinnati, Toledo, Marietta, Glouster, and Danville as their home addresses. the sixth wrote no home.
Constitution Lodge No 126 of New Marshfield announced that a home-coming planned for Saturday November 30 has been postponed indefinitely due to unknown reasons.
An Associated Press dispatch reports Dr. Jose Antonio Lopez a New York based surgeon and native of Puerto Rico is urged on President Roosevelt as successor to Blanton Winship as Puerto Rico governor should Winship retire. Lopez, an Ohio University alumnus, divides time between New York Polyclinic Hospital and San Juan Insular Sanitarium for Tuberculosis. He sailed from New York November 21 to his San Juan home.
Dr. Walter H. Hartung Ohio state health director calls for observance of Tuberculosis Sunday on December 1. He promotes the Annual Christmas Health Seal Sale by the Ohio Public Health Association begun Thanksgiving Day and running to Christmas to support tuberculosis prevention efforts.
Rev W H Fowler Rev A G Jenkins Misa Annabelle Haller and about 45 First M E Church delegates attend the Nelsonville M K Church for the Booth Festival of the Young People of the Methodist Churches in Athens County. Rev Ward Radford and 35 delegates also attend. Jenking speaks on Youth's Dream at 7 0p.m. after a 5 30 supper. Donations of clothing canned goods and groceries are shown in booths to aid White Cross Hospital Columbus and Worthington Children's Home.
A hearing for temporary alimony in the divorce of Helen Marie Martin and Clifford Andrew Martin is set for Monday in Athens County Common Pleas Court. Mrs. Martin cites extreme cruelty and seeks her maiden name Gillett. The couple married in 1929 and have no children. The Spaulding divorce is set for Tuesday.
The Athens Lodge of Elks holds its thirty first annual memorial Sunday at 2 PM in the Cline Building rooms. Rev Dr Wilbur H Fowler delivers the address with ritual services and a eulogy by John Cross. Dorothy Duncan plays piano as officers perform.
Cash Wolf aged 47 died of a heart ailment Thursday night at the home of his cousin near Washington D C H while spending Thanksgiving Day. He had lived around Amesville most of his life and leaves a son Hershel in Hudson Colorado two daughters Kathryn Athens and Hazel Akron two brothers Hanna and Ted and a sister Mrs Winifred Weemer. He was with the Federal Valley Railroad maintenance crew until ill health ended his work about a month ago. Burial will be at Federal Valley Church cemetery near Amesville.
The Hock Hocking District Scoutmasters meeting set for December 1 is moved to Sunday December 8 to allow Paul Handel from Koo taga Area Scout executive to attend. The change was announced Friday.
The Ohio University Alumni Association mailed 1 000 giant telegrams titled Alma Mater Giant Wire as part of a membership drive. The 12 by 18 inch telegrams bear the university seal cover news of President H G James inauguration and Buckeye Conference Football Championship win plus requests for subscriptions signed by alumni secretary Clark F E Williams.
Athens officers joined Columbus police and state patrolmen to serve 6000 Thanksgiving dinners at the Elite Buffet in Columbus. John Gorham and Warren Timberlake helped staff the meal, with attendees also receiving movie tickets.
Workers heated water in oil drums to mix concrete curb mix on Moore Avenue. The hot water speeds setting in cold weather as curbing and sand cushion are added. Afterward, used brick pavement with tar filler will be laid.
Five Athens County farmers form a committee with the Resettlement Administration to develop a program using lime deposits. The group, including Leo Williams and D. M. Sawyer, meets at Hartman’s office to discuss soil needs, crop rotation, and potential lime sourcing for as low as $1.20 a ton.
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